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Post by silverfoxcc on Feb 8, 2020 19:44:13 GMT
Read on another sight that there are four stations on th underground system that have a singlr platform. I have found
Heathrow Term 4
Mill Hill East
What are the other two?
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Post by jimini on Feb 8, 2020 20:02:08 GMT
Chesham and Olympia, I think.
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Post by castlebar on Feb 8, 2020 22:49:44 GMT
There were more:
South Acton
Blake Hall, Ongar
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Post by Chris M on Feb 8, 2020 23:04:55 GMT
New Cross, New Cross Gate and Shoreditch had one platform when they were part of the Underground. Embankment and Wood Lane (Central line) did when first built. King William Street did as well, but I can't remember whether that was rebuilt from one to two or vice versa. |
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Post by gantshill on Feb 8, 2020 23:05:29 GMT
... Wood Lane on the Central line when it first opened. Shoreditch and Aldwych also only had one platform for many years.
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Post by gantshill on Feb 8, 2020 23:07:21 GMT
I think King William Street started with a central track with two outer platforms (like Tower Gateway) and then was changed to be a central platform with a track either side.
Stratford DLR also started as a single platform.
Apologies I should have merged this with my previous post.
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Post by Chris M on Feb 9, 2020 0:17:14 GMT
Emerson Park, New Cross and Battersea Park all have only one platform for London Overground services and there are loads of single platform stops on Tramlink.
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Post by zbang on Feb 9, 2020 8:17:16 GMT
For clarity, does "single platform station" mean a station with only one platform with a single track next to it or does it also include stations with a platform having tracks on two sides? Heathrow 4 and Kensington/Olympia would count as the first.
(Some rail systems use "platform" to be the passenger area adjoining one or more tracks, so "Platform 1" could have A and B sides.)
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Post by rincew1nd on Feb 9, 2020 8:49:28 GMT
I think it refers to platform faces, rather than structures.
An island platform is a single structure but with two faces.
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Post by class411 on Feb 9, 2020 9:06:49 GMT
I'm sure there are no LU stations that literally have a single platform, but were there ever? ETA: Well, I certainly got that wrong.  |
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Post by Dstock7080 on Feb 9, 2020 10:07:24 GMT
I'm sure there are no LU stations that literally have a single platform, but were there ever? Heathrow Terminal 4 surely qualifies, LU opening 1986 and the Heathrow Connect/TfL Rail station is separate and opened 1998. |
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Post by countryman on Feb 9, 2020 10:21:41 GMT
It appears that Mill Hill East is the only station that has and has only had one platform.
Chesham has only one platform, but appears to originally had two, the current platform originally being platform 2.
Olympia only has one LU platform, but another two used by Overground.
Similarly Heathrow Terminal 4 has one LU platform, but two TFL platforms.
So the answer to the OP depends on the definition of one platform.
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Post by MoreToJack on Feb 9, 2020 10:31:18 GMT
The two Terminal 4 stations are entirely separate and nowhere near each other. If Mill Hill East counts, so does T4. Sharing a name does not make a station the same.
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Post by gantshill on Feb 9, 2020 10:53:32 GMT
Going back into history, I seem to recall that a couple of the Hounslow stations opened as single track and platform. I presume that many of the Brill branch stations were not double tracked.
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Post by zbang on Feb 9, 2020 18:03:10 GMT
I think it refers to platform faces, rather than structures. An island platform is a single structure but with two faces. I'll go with "platform equals faces" as it appears that LU numbers the faces individually (e.g. platforms 3 & 4 at Edgware Rd). OTOH the phrase "cross-platform transfer" muddies the waters a bit....
In general, this suggests that a single-platform station must be served by only a single track (such as Mill Hill East or Heathrow 4). A skim of the CartaMetro map suggests this is quite rare.
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Post by silverfoxcc on Feb 9, 2020 21:32:45 GMT
Thanks for all the replies and in some cases a nice piece of history.
To clarify it was stations with only one platform face in operation now
So we have got the answers
Terminal 4
Chesham
Kenny O
Mill Hill East
One for the pub quiz tie breaker methinks
Thanks to all who replied
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